Chapter Twenty-Three: Desert Island Escape

A captain once said to the sailors, "This compass is not a compass, nor does it point north." ”

The sailor asked, "And where does it point?" ”

The captain replied: "Poppy Island." ”

A long time ago, some coastal residents had a desire to grow whole grains on this deserted island. Again and again they sowed, and again and again they were disappointed. Wheat and corn are like weeds, which wither and turn yellow before they can grow and tassel. A desert island is still a desert island, and nothing is harvested from what is planted. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of pirates landed by boat, and they planted poppies on the island, which has been known as Poppy Island ever since.

The sun rises from the sea, and the sky is surrounded by a rosy glow through the gaps in the clouds, and the sea is calm.

Han Bingyu's face was pale and still groggy, Hualong and Zhou Xingxing helped him take off his shirt, the bullet pierced his arm, and the wound exposed white bones, which was shocking. Han Bingyu, who took off his shirt, looked fatter, there was a lack of medical treatment on the desert island, the wound had been infected and suppurated, and in a few days, this fat man would become a dead fat man.

They haven't eaten all day.

The next day, they built the house.

On the third day, they ate the house.

The so-called house is a hole dug in the dirt slope with several kelp on it. The island's nights are cold, windy all night, and hot during the day, making people dizzy from the sun. The kelp was picked up on the beach by the dragon. The waves washed a clump of kelp onto the beach, and the dragon was picked up, originally intended to be used as a shade from the sun and wind, but they were hungry and thirsty, and filling their stomachs was an imminent problem.

What does it feel like to be hungry?

Some older people still feel fear when they reminisce about the past. An old man once told me how he ate a broom. After three years of natural disasters, a production captain who had grown a good harvest of potatoes was hungry, so he boiled the potatoes, smashed them into puree, and built a wall out of mashed potatoes in his yard so that he could eat the wall when the famine came again.

"I can swallow a cow now, and if someone invites me to dinner, I'll eat today's, yesterday's, and the night before's dinner," he said. ”

"It chews like beef jerky, and it's very chewy." Zhou Xingxing tore off a piece of kelp and motioned to Han Bingyu if he wanted to taste it.

Han Bingyu shook his head, and after a long time, he said one word: "Water!" ”

People who have lost too much blood must be hydrated, the taste of kelp is salty, and eating too much makes you feel thirsty.

Zhou Xingxing finished eating a piece of kelp and carefully observed the roots of the kelp, trying to find something from it. The root system is thick and well-developed, which indicates that the kelp is in the mature stage, and the waves can wash the kelp onto the beach, which indicates that there is a large amount of kelp growing in the nearby sea, which also solves the problem of eating. He asked Painted Dragon to take a look at the surrounding beaches, and after a while, Painted Dragon returned, and as expected, he brought back a ball of kelp.

Zhou Xingxing found a pit, spread a belt around the pit, and pressed stones to prevent it from being blown away by the wind at night.

Drawing Dragon asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhou Xingxing replied: "There will be water tomorrow." ”

At night, the moisture and fog from the sea condense into droplets, which flow down the kelp into the pits. The next day, Hualong and Zhou Xingxing went to see it, and couldn't help but be disappointed, the water was indeed there, but only a little, they had to drink it before the sun rose, otherwise it would be dried by the sun. Zhou Xingxing and Hualong gave up the only bit of water to Han Bingyu, Han Bingyu was unceremonious, drank it all in two sips, and Zhou Xingxing and Hualong could only swallow their saliva.

Zhou Xingxing tried to filter the seawater with clean sand. He dug a pit, filled it with sand, poured seawater into it, filtered it through layers of sand, and then flowed out through an outlet under the pit. However, after the sea water is filtered by sand, the water quality does not change fundamentally, and it is still bitter and salty to drink.

The painting dragon was restless, Zhou Xingxing sat on the beach and pondered, the two had dry lips, they hadn't drunk water for three days, and they only had some kelp in their stomachs. The beach was very clean, there were no snails and shells, Zhou Xingxing stood up and sighed, the sea disappointed him. He turned his gaze to the desert island, which was flat, and some of the depressions had some dry kelp, which was no longer edible. When the kelp matures, its roots break away from the reef and are washed up on the beach by the sea, dried by the sun, and blown into the depression.

Zhou Xingxing shouted in surprise: "There is water!" ”

Drawing the dragon ran over: "Where?" ”

Zhou Xingxing pointed to the sea.

Drawing the dragon said, "! ”

Zhou Xingxing squatted down, gathered the soil in front of him into a pile with his hands, and he asked Hualong.

"How do you kill a man with this mound?"

"Blind him with dirt, and then ......"

Zhou Xingxing smiled and said: "This pile of soil is also a murder weapon, you only need to use water and fire, and it will turn into a brick." ”

"Yes," said the dragon. ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "In addition to bricks, this pile of soil can also be turned into other things. ”

The dragon said, "What? ”

Zhou Xingxing replied: "Pot!" ”

Hualong nodded, and asked again: "Without water, what's the use of asking for a pot?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "If you have a pot, you will have water. ”

We both did a physics experiment in middle school, where we folded a piece of paper into the shape of a boat, put water in the paper boat, light a candle, and burn it at the bottom of the paper boat, and the paper boat would not burn, but the water inside the paper boat would boil.

Suppose that in ancient times, there were two ape-men living in a cave, one could use water and the other could use fire, and if they were a male and a female, they might mate, and their children grew up and knew how to use simple tools such as stones, earth, and branches, and the children grew up - a vessel appeared. Between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, a number of bowls, clay pots, and pots appeared.

Zhou Xingxing made a casserole!

He sifted the soil with socks and mixed it with fine sand, which would form rounded crystals after high temperatures, so that the surface of the casserole was rounded, high temperature resistance, and stronger. He used water and mud to make blanks, dried them, and made a simple cave on the soil slope, and after high temperatures, a casserole was successfully fired.

We have to say that this casserole looks ugly, like a big inkstone.

It is also worth mentioning that when Drawing Dragon drilled wood to make fire and tried to ignite the pile of dried kelp, Han Bingyu threw a lighter at his feet, and Han Bingyu smoked, so he carried the lighter with him.

Zhou Xingxing used the same method to fire a pot lid.

When all this was done, the dragon asked, "Where is the water?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Wait and see! ”

He added seawater to the pot and burned a fire underneath, and after a while, the seawater boiled, evaporated into steam, the salt remained at the bottom of the pot, and the steam condensed into distilled water, and the water droplets continued to drip out along the gaps reserved by the lid of the pot, which was fresh water. The principle of distillation is very simple, and island countries such as Singapore and Nauru also use this desalination technology.

They made a simple cistern out of stone slabs.

Hualong said happily: "I invite you two to drink kelp soup, my skills are good." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "In the evening, we eat steamed crabs! ”

"There are no crabs. ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Yes. ”

The dragon said, "Why didn't I see it?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "There are crab footprints on the beach, you can go and see it when the tide is low." ”

When the tide was low in the evening, Hualong really caught some crabs on the beach, as well as small shrimp and small fish that were jumping around. The three of them had a full meal, and the situation of Han Bingyu seemed to improve. Distilling fresh water requires a lot of fuel, and soon, the island's dried kelp is burned out. He swam from one reef to another, and there is a lot of kelp growing around each reef, and the kelp is a shallow sea plant, and the dragon doesn't need to be very skilled in diving to catch a lot, and it can be used as fuel after exposure on the beach.

Once the sun rose, Zhou Xingxing drew a line on the stone, and the time passed quickly, and they had been trapped on the island for seven days. That afternoon, the three of them were chatting when Han Bingyu pointed to the sky and suddenly said, "Look! ”

The three of them stood up and couldn't help but look stunned.

Dark clouds rolled in from the sky, the sea was surprisingly quiet, and in an instant, the wind was fierce, and the sky was overcast for a moment. Many bubbles gushed out of the calm sea level, the dark clouds became lower and lower, and a large bubble rose, and after the burst, a huge whirlpool appeared on the surface of the sea. A thin black cloud column stretched down from the dark clouds, and the funnel-shaped cloud pillar drooping at the bottom gradually connected with the whirlpool, and the water surface "banged", and the sea water began to rotate rapidly, gradually forming a water column to the sky, connecting with the black clouds.

The painting dragon exclaimed, "Seaspout! ”

They had never seen such a spectacular and terrifying scene, and man seemed too small in front of nature.

Zhou Xingxing shouted loudly: "There is another one over there!" ”

Another seaspout appeared on the horizon, moving slowly from the southeast, its upper end was connected with the thunderstorm cloud, and the lower end extended directly to the sea surface, and soon, the two seaspouts slowly approached, and the huge energy made the clouds rotate, and the rotation of the clouds also drove the rotation of the air. The seaspout spun faster and faster, and in an instant, the two seaspouts merged into one, and a huge seaspout appeared, spinning and flying, with a violent, the surrounding clouds released lightning, and the roots of the seaspouts splashed like snakes, the scene was thrilling and spectacular.

A tornado is a powerful storm that is associated with low atmospheric pressure and swirling wind direction. When the air on the surface and at the sea surface is heated, columnar air descends from the upper part of the Cumulonimbus storm, and the signs of tornado development become very obvious - the area of low pressure in the air begins to rotate violently.

A tornado at sea can cause a seaspout, fish and shrimp in the water, and even a stranded shipwreck will be swept into the air, a jellyfish will be thrown out between the stamens of the waves, and the skirt will be opened in the sky, and the eyes of a bird will also break into the memory of a fish at this time. Residents of the coast sometimes see strange sights, after a sea spout, fish fall from the sky and land in the yard of their house.

Some tornadoes only last a few seconds, while others last for more than an hour.

Twenty minutes later, the tornado disappeared into the clouds, and torrential rain poured down with hail.

Zhou Xingxing and Hualong hid in the pit, and Han Bingyu asked them to come out.

Drawing Dragon asked, "Why?" ”

Han Bingyu said: "God has eyes, this rain is good." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I understand. ”

Braving heavy rain and hail, they built several dikes on the island to intercept the rain, and when the rain subsided, they channeled the stagnant water together to form a pond, thus completely solving the freshwater crisis.

Life on the island is lonely and peaceful, they drink from conch and cook kelp, crabs, fish and shrimp in a casserole. They had seen a sea serpent broken in three, and it was still alive. Sometimes, there would be red leaves floating on the surface of the sea, and they thought the leaves were so beautiful, so they put their hands into the water to catch a leaf and see, but something unexpected happened. The "leaves" actually floated, and disappeared after a while. It turns out that it's not some pretty leaves, but a leaf-shaped fish with their eyes closed on the water! Leaf-shaped fish always dress themselves up as leaves and can fool people's eyes.

Since that rainstorm, the wounds have worsened and festered extensively. His arms could no longer be lifted, his whole body was full of stench, and to make matters worse, after being drenched in the rain, he began to have a high fever, and if left untreated, Zhou Xingxing and Hualong could only watch Han Bingyu slowly die.

The painting dragon said to Han Bingyu, "Cut off your arm, right?" You see the whole arm is rotten, and the smell is really disgusting. ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Cutting off the arm may not be able to save your life, then there will be a new wound, besides, we don't have a knife, what to cut, do we have to hit it with a stone?" ”

The dragon said: "That is only to wait for death." ”

Han Bing doesn't speak!

When a person is about to die, he hears the buzzing of flies.

Han Bingyu's brain was buzzing, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, and he lay in the dirt pit all day long.

One evening, a seagull died suddenly in flight and landed on an island.

Zhou Xingxing and Hualong ran over to see that the seagull should have died of murder, and the murderers were wind, disease and humans. It had injured one of its paws, possibly while catching a fish. The polluted sea, the littering of garbage, these are the causes of its fatal death.

"God it would be nice to have a doctor come in with a scalpel, medicine, and penicillin," he said. ”

Zhou Xingxing looked at the seagull and pondered: "There will be a doctor." ”

Drawing Dragon asked incredulously, "When?" ”

Zhou Xingxing's tone was firm: "Tomorrow morning." ”

The painting dragon scoffed: "Liar." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Wait patiently for another night." ”

"We bet that if we don't see the doctor tomorrow, you'll go and get kelp," he said. ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Okay! ”

The next day, the corpse of the seagull was decomposed and emitted an unpleasant stench, and Zhou Xingxing sat on the ground and muttered to himself. Hualong walked over and asked him where the doctor was, Zhou Xingxing bowed his head and said nothing, and after a while, Zhou Xingxing asked the seagull: "Where are you from?" ”

The seagull does not answer.

Zhou Xingxing continued to ask: "Have you seen the doctor?" ”

The seagull remained motionless.

Hualong asked puzzledly: "Zhou Xingxing, are you eating kelp and becoming a fool?" ”

Zhou Xingxing continued to interrogate the seagull: "Do you want to be stubborn, don't you know our policy?" ”

The dragon laughed: "You can torture it to extract a confession." ”

Zhou Xingxing said solemnly: "I am a criminal policeman, and I have also done pre-trial for many years, and now I am interrogating seagulls, please don't disturb me, okay?" ”

"If it could speak, it would only say to you—I'm dead." ”

Zhou Xingxing turned his head and glared at him.

Hualong couldn't help laughing and saw what Zhou Xingxing wanted to do.

Zhou Xingxing asked, "Have you ever seen a fly?" ”

"I've seen it," he said. ”

Zhou Xingxing ignored him and said to the seagull: "It seems that I only have an autopsy." ”

Zhou Xingxing plucked the seagull's feathers and tore its body open. The seagull's internal organs have grown densely packed with small maggots, and a stench spreads. The dragon covered his mouth and felt a bout of nausea. Zhou Xingxing carefully pinched a small maggot with two fingers, and he said to the painting dragon:

"Here, this is the doctor!"

The first witness to death is usually a fly. This is because flies have a very keen sense of smell, and they can often smell fresh carcasses from a distance of several kilometers. It only takes ten minutes for a female fly to find a carcass and lay her eggs on it. After 10 to 14 hours, these eggs can be transformed into maggots. From the hatching of maggots, eat the corpse tissue. It takes 8 to 14 days to develop to the pupal stage and finally fly away as an adult. The medical examiner also deduces the time of death of a corpse from this.

Maggots are indeed the best surgeons.

Hospitals often feel helpless against patients whose wounds are rotting for a long time, because the decaying tissue is difficult to clean up manually. Maggots have been used to treat wound infections for centuries, from the Battle of Waterloo to the Battle of Somy, as well as during the American Civil War, the healing benefits of maggots have been discovered by surgeons on the battlefield. Put maggots in the wound, maggots can eat the necrotic tissue and bacteria in the rotting wound, maggots are scavenging larvae and are not interested in fresh meat, so there is no need to worry about maggots eating the whole person. In times of war, many field soldiers were treated in this way without medicine.

Zhou Xingxing simply disinfected some small maggots with salt water, and then put them into Han Bingyu's wound, he tore his clothes and helped Han Bingyu bandage the wound.

Han Bingyu said, "Thank you." ”

"How do you feel now, you know, maggots are crawling in your arms?" ”

Han Bingyu replied: "It's a little itchy." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Maggots must be replaced frequently, otherwise, flies will fly out of your arms." ”

Ten days later, the ice was miraculously cured, and the maggots not only ate the festering tissue, but also prompted the wound to produce a biological enzyme that helps in the formation of new tissue. In this way, the wound quickly grows healthy new tissue.

On September 2, 1998, two birds flew over the head of one man, and later, the bird's feathers appeared in his down jacket.

On April 19, 1999, a fisherman released a sea turtle and carved four words on the shell: Blessing and longevity.

On June 20, 2001, the twenty-eighth day when Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu were trapped on the island, a sea turtle had just climbed onto the beach and was captured by Hualong.

The dragon said, "Turtle meat, it tastes good." ”

Han Bingyu said, "Let it go." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Now that we have entered the egg-laying period of sea turtles, many sea turtles will come ashore. This one, let's release it, maybe it will bring us good luck. ”

Sea lions are the first to crawl ashore to mate, and this animal roars like a lion, and some species have a long mane on their necks, which resembles lions, hence the name. The dragon's kung fu finally came into play, and he fought the sea lion on the beach, and the sea lion was defeated and eaten by the three of them. Seals and fur seals come ashore again and must come ashore to mate and reproduce, year after year, from generation to generation. The seal crawls on its belly like a crawler excavator, the fur of the fur seal is precious, and the male fur seal whip has an aphrodisiac and kidney tonic effect. Of course, these two animals also entered Zhou Xingxing's stomach.

The next day, a large number of turtles landed.

Sea turtles lay eggs at different times, and the breeding season is from April ~ July. Male and female sea turtles live in groups around coral islands, chasing each other and choosing mates. Sometimes the female turtle doesn't look down on the male turtle who is courting, so she puts her head at the male turtle to prevent the male turtle from climbing on the back, and the male turtle always tries to go around the back of the female turtle from the side, and the female turtle always adapts to the situation, turning around and putting her head on each other, so as not to let the male turtle succeed. If the two are satisfied, the male turtle will climb on the back of the female turtle, hook the female turtle's back carapace with the forelimb claw, bend the long tail forward with the same down, and insert the handover into the cloaca of the female turtle, and the mating time can be as long as 3~4 hours.

Zhou Xingxing observed that the time when sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs is generally after 10 p.m. They crawl awkwardly forward on their flipper-like limbs, leaving two wide turtle paths on the beach that resemble tracked vehicle tracks. Look for spawning sites on sandy beaches that can't be flooded by the sea. At this time, the female turtles are a little impatient, but they are extremely cautious, and they immediately return to the sea at the slightest disturbance. This is because turtle trappers and some wild animals often wait during this time to catch the female turtle that lays her eggs on land, or dig up the eggs she lays. Once the turtle is lifted on land, it can only be caught, and the vigilance of the turtle during the egg-laying period is particularly high. Only when they are sure that everything is safe will they look for a suitable place to spawn. Sea turtles are also very careful in the choice of spawning sites, which should not only be conducive to the hatching of eggs, but also not easy to be discovered and destroyed by predators, so it takes a long time.

Han Bingyu was also carefully observing the egg-laying process of the turtles, and he found that after the turtles had chosen a site, they first dug a wide pit with their huge forelimbs. The pit is as deep as the turtle's body height, and the entire body is hidden in the pit, and then two shorter hind limbs are used to alternately dig a vertical pit under the genital hole. Although the turtle is old and slow, it is as dexterous as a human hand when digging a pit, scooping up the sand grains like a spoon and carefully lifting them up and throwing them out of the pit, sometimes far away. When the turtles lay eggs, the whole beach will be filled with the sound of sand digging and digging. The pit is more than half a meter deep, and the side walls are vertical, like a small well. If the location is suitable, it can be dug in less than 10 minutes. If there is a collapse or debris in the sand, it will take a long time to clean up.

After the egg pit is dug and rests for a while, the eggs are laid. Before spawning, the hind limbs are used to pat the tail and cloaca a few times to pat off the adhered sand, and then the cloaca excretes a few drops of white transparent liquid into the egg pit, and then produces the first egg, the egg is very much like a white table tennis ball, the egg shell is hard and elastic, and it is not easy to break. Once a sea turtle starts laying eggs, it ignores any strong stimulus. The whole spawning process takes about ten minutes. During this time, it is constantly expelling slime, causing the entire pit to be covered in sand grains of slime. After the spawning is over, the egg pit is buried with the sand on the hind feet, then crawls out of the bunker pit, fills the pit with the forelimbs, and finally drags the tired body back to the sea.

Turtle eggs are a delicacy, and some turtles cry while crawling into the sea while digging for turtle eggs.

This is because sea turtles eat aquatic plants while also swallowing seawater, ingesting large amounts of salt. Some special glands next to the tear glands of the turtle excrete these salts, causing the turtle to "cry" on the shore.

After careful observation, Han Bingyu said to Hualong, "We have a way to get out of this desert island!" ”

"Unless there is a boat," he said. ”

Han Bingyu said, "We can build a boat by ourselves." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I also thought of it. ”

"There is not even a tree on this island, so what do you use to build a ship?" ”

Han Bingyu said to Zhou Xingxing: "Let's write out the answer and see if it's the same." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "Okay! ”

Zhou Xingxing and Han Bingyu wrote each on the beach, drew a dragon to see, and found that they wrote two words: turtle!

The boats they make are made of these things: ropes, sacks, dead sea turtles, live sea turtles.

The rope is woven from the handle, stem, and fiber of kelp. Kelp is divided into stalks, stems, and leaves, and most of the kelp seen in the market is leaves. The stalk of kelp is stiff and the stem is flexible, and they remove the leaves, smear the stalk and stem with seal oil, and soak it in smoked water, this homemade rope is also very durable. Ropes made from kelp are not uncommon, and many sailors know how to make ropes out of seaweed.

The sack was thrown on a desert island with them. They cut the sacks, weave the ropes into a net, and lay them on top. In this way, the hull of the ship was built.

Dead sea turtles mainly function as buoys. For those who drowned, the male corpse was face down and the female corpse was face up. This is because of the anatomy of the pelvis – a woman's butt is bigger than a man's. People who have drowned, both male and female, have one thing in common: they float on the surface. During the process of decay, a large amount of gas is produced inside the corpse, which makes the corpse in the water float on the surface of the water. The same is true for sea turtles, which turn the turtle over, turn it on all fours, and throw it into the sea after death, and the dead turtle is also floating. They tied twelve dead sea turtles to the "hull" with ropes, so that they made an air raft.

Live turtles can be used as the power of this air raft. Unlike tortoises, sea turtles cannot retract their heads and limbs back into their shells. They tie ropes around the necks of live turtles and sit on the rafts, which they pull through the sea like mules and horses, so that there is motivation. They picked four robust turtles. Sea turtles are in the spawning season and will instinctively swim as fast as they can to land. Sea turtles are shallow sea animals, and although they can stay underwater for hours, they still have to surface to regulate their body temperature and breathing, so they don't have to worry about turtles diving into the deep sea all the time.

Four days later, their ship was built!

They chose to set sail at noon, because noon is neither high tide nor low tide, and the sea is calm.

Drawing Dragon volunteered to be the captain, and he shouted, "Go!" ”

They left the desert island. The turtle paddled its limbs and swam non-stop, the turtle dragged the raft on the calm water and moved slowly, the three of them sat on the raft, looked back at the desert island where they had lived for a month, and felt a lot of emotion in their hearts, at the current speed, it would probably be possible to land at dusk.

Han Bingyu taught the dragon how to drive the turtle, and he told the dragon that he must hold the turtle tightly, not let the rope be tight to the point of breaking, if the turtle sinks down, he must not pull it suddenly, and release the rope to the turtle when necessary. The position of the underwater turtle is judged by the slope of the rope in the water, and the turtle's route is controlled all the time.

Drawing Dragon said impatiently, "Got it, it's like you're driving a turtle a lot." ”

Han Bingyu smiled: "I don't have much experience, but this is no different from driving a mule and a horse." ”

Zhou Xingxing was observing the dead sea turtles tied to the raft, and he pressed it with his hand and found that the buoyancy was strong enough to hold out until they landed.

Han Bingyu began to tell some anecdotes, he said that some whales would commit suicide, they would swim to the shore on their own, and they would run aground there, and there would often be squid and octopuses crawling out of their stomachs, and turtles would come out of their stomachs and jump around on the beach. Sea turtles are very spiritual, in the Turtle Bay Nature Reserve in Huidong County, Guangdong, there is a century-old female turtle named "An'an", which can carry a child on her back to play in the water.

As they move away from the islands, they reach our coastline as they head west. The three of them sat on a raft, and the water was as blue as the sky. Suddenly, the rope rose rapidly, and all four turtles floated to the surface, and they seemed to have encountered something terrible at the bottom of the water, panicked, and wanted to flee in all directions. The dragon tried his best to hold on to the rope so that it didn't break.

They saw a terrible shadow swim under the water next to the raft, and the shadow grew larger, and it turned a corner and slowly rose to the surface.

Zhou Xingxing shouted: "Shark! ”

They could see clearly that it was a great blue shark, its towering spine fins cutting through the water like knives, and the water was pouring down from its body to both sides. They watched as the shark circled and approached again, its strength and beauty exposed. The shark opens its jaws wide and swallows a turtle.

The dragon shouted, "Oops! ”

The appearance of sharks is not accidental. The dead turtle's mouth was dripping with blood, and the shark smelled it from a long distance as the blood sank and spread in the sea. It had a great sense of smell, it came up from the depths of the water, smelled the traces of blood, and followed the path of their raft, completely desperate, sometimes it lost its scent, but it found its way again.

Soon, all three live turtles were eaten by sharks. Trying to protect the last turtle, he dragged the turtle to his side, but the shark jumped out of the water and bit the turtle. Seeing the opportunity, the dragon punched the shark in the eye, which sunken and burst out of blood, which drifted away in the water. After a while, the other sharks smelled blood and soon swam over as well. They were excited, fainting from hunger. Six or seven sharks began to attack the shark with the injured eye, and the injured shark rolled over the surface of the sea, twisting its tail, and was eaten by its own kind in the struggle.

The raft, which had lost its power, began to spin on the surface of the sea, and the three of them were silent.

After a while, the dragon said, "I'm wondering which of the three of us will be swallowed by the shark first." ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I wish it was me, I don't want to watch the two of you die in front of me." ”

Han Bingyu said: "In the past, when I was a soldier, we carried out field survival training, and our company commander said a sentence that worked very well, and he saved me at least three times. ”

Hualong asked, "What did your company commander say?" ”

Han Bingyu said: "At the last moment, don't give up hope. ”

The shark swam away and did not come back. Sharks are not scavengers, so those dead turtles that serve as buoys are unharmed.

They paddled the raft with their hands, but in vain, because there were many undercurrents in the water, and the strength of their hands did not advance much. Hours passed, and there was still no shadow of the land, and they were so exhausted that they could only let the raft float with the waves.

When the cold ice met the water, he fished out a cluster of yellow sargassum and shook it, and some small shrimp fell off. The shrimp were bouncing on the sack, shaking their feet like fleas. Han Bingyu pinched off their heads with his thumb and forefinger, chewed them with their shells and tails, and ate them. They are small, but they are nutritious and taste good. Zhou Xingxing and Hualong were depressed and even desperate because it was getting dark.

The sunset is shining on the sea, and you can see a seven-colored rainbow in the sparkling waves, and the sunset is slowly setting all over the sky.

Their raft drifts through the sea, a tuna swimming close to the surface, the last rays of sunlight shining on its gold-like scales. As the twilight grew darker, they drifted in the sea and began to miss the deserted island. They feel so lonely, maybe everyone is an island in the middle of nowhere. They're back to back, leaning together, so they feel a little warmer.

All three did not speak, and remained silent.

It was already dark, and there was no moonlight, only a faint starlight.

Gradually, the wind began to pick up, and the waves could overturn the raft at any moment. In the darkness, the wind was howling, and the wind was blowing more and more, and a big wave rolled in, and the bodies of the three were soaked.

Han Bingyu said, "Do you two believe in God? ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I believe it." ”

"I don't believe it. ”

Han Bingyu said: "Draw the dragon, you will believe it in the future." ”

He turned on a lighter and shook his arm in the air.

In the night sky, a helicopter flew over, and the sound of the propeller spinning startled schools of flying fish.

The coast guard did not find Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu on the island, and they searched the nearby waters for several hours but found nothing. They reported to the command center, and Bai Jingyu was furious and ordered to continue the search. Soon, it was dark, the coast guard asked to return, Bai Jingyu sighed, burst into tears, and he slowly took off his hat!

Just as the searching helicopter was about to return, a coast guard stumbled back and saw a little light flashing on the pitch-black sea.

That little bit of light came from the lighter in Han Bingyu's hand!